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Chicago examiner wednesday june 3 1908 14 pages vol vi no 141 a m price one cent gggg&ggfc | rivals for senatorship era of drugs at an end physicians declare old-fashioned potion vendei succeeded by man of hygiene doctors say mind prescription nov famous medical men at a m a convention tell of new regime see poverty for m ds speakers predict such health ful conditions they will not be needed the regime of the doctor oi drugs has passed last night a small coterie of the most famous physicians and surgeons m the world chanced tc meet in the lobby of the annex hotel they declared that the fifty-ninth con vention of the american medical as sociation now in session in Chicago marks the extinction of the old fashioned vender of potions they said that the convention es tablishes beyond doubt that his place has been taken by the doctor of hy giene and thought prescription who tells his patients that instead of ach ing from rheuma'tism they should take a long walk that instead of suffering from typhoid and malaria they should drain the puddles that have accumulated in the back yards after spring rains the principal speakers at this gathering were dr henry o marcy of boston famous pupil of the famous lord lister of london and the flrst practitioner of modern surgery in this country dr john wyeth head of the new york academy of medicine dr c a l reed of cincinnati former president of the american medical association and dr t d crotherf of hartford conn one of the oldest neurologists in the united states spectators in the group who nodded as sent to the comments of the others were dr cliarles b beevor of the national hos pital for the paralyzed and epileptics of london and probably the greatest special ist lu the world on nervous diseases and colonel w c gorgas t'nited states army sanitarian in charge of the panama canal zone many drugs to be abandoned here are sonic of the expressions of these experts on the work and value of the convention to the people of Chicago and the united states as well ns the medical world dr marcy said the convention is the clearing house for the abandonment of old ideas and the acceptance of new views fifteen thou sand doctors ihe largest number ever as sembled now are wrangling in stormy ses sions throughout the city on every known point iu medicines and surgery some times it looks like they were on the verge of a fight but they ate really settling the question of the abandonment forever of many of the drugs formerly in use the value to the practitioners them selves is the meeting of the men from the country with the city physicians i con sider the country doctor in some ways is better than any of us he is independent the city man specializes and consequently depends constantly upon his professional brethren the country doctor also has been a leader in the new idea of living out of doors and the use of hospital tents and the advocate of the surgeon's knife only in extreme cases want physician in cabinet other great questions that are being answered at this meeting and which will take the form of action in permanent com mittees appointed by the house of dele gates said dr crothers is the creation of a cabinet office for a physician who thart oversee the health of the nation it klso means competent medical legislation in all states , alcohol is also a subject souuded in pearly every meeting doctors have begun to realize its demorali-ing effects â– the other doctors declared themselves on ahe subject of speciailsts i the specialist may charge 10 just to lake a look at a patient said dr reed kand sometimes the prices are too high int just the same the specialist in the lies is the demand of american life hnericans live too fast eat too fast and kc much work too hard and make too inuch money all this tears down their vstems and the medical world has to specialize to keep 11,1 with them dr wyeth then closed the discussion by rob union officials as meeting closes two men enter hall and ob tain si 80 from treasury of carpenters body two masked men last night held up wil liam kearns i;,20 humboldt boulevard william nayior 48g crystal street and li gregoire 3.'!7 so^tl center avenue officers of the carpenters and joiners union while they were counting up their monthly re ceipts after a meeting in the john hopkln sou hal kedzle and colorado avenues they escaped with 180 after ihe union meeting the hall was used by the modern brotherhood of america mi organization of men and women this meeting had jnst adjourned and the three union officials were still checking up their receipts when the door was opened sudden ly and the two men entered with revolvers in their hands their order put up yonr hands was so sudden that kearns began to reach for the money while one covered the other officers the second shoved his revolver into kearns face repeating his command the robbers then took the money and backed from the room leaving the officials standing with their faces to the wall more than isoo men and women were downstairs many of them lu a large palm garden which occupies the first floor hear ing a noise upstairs some of the men started up and were passed by ihe rob bers coming down they conducted them selves so as to arouse no suspicion and escaped through the palm garden the warren avenue police were notified but say that the description given of the men is extremely vague mrs preston gibson to wear directoire gown will appear in paris creation at wedding in washington washington june 2 when mrs preston gibson daughter of mrs tnomas nelson page acts as matron of honor at the wedding of miss errol cuthbert and lieutenant charles train of the navy on june 15 she will wear the geuuiue direc loire gown otherwise known as the sheath 6kirt this will be the first appearance of the gown in washington it was im ported from paris where mrs gibson who lias ju.st returned from abroad pur chased it it is said that the gown fol lows faithfully the lines of the direetoire gown even to the slash on one side forced to jump rope wife sues for divorce nkyv haven conn june 2.-when mrs charles guy of meriden was asked in the suiter _ court to-ilay to tell why she sough n divorce ou the ground of intoler able cruelty she told the judge that her husband compel her tn jump a rope to keep down her weight he kept her skip plug till she could hardly stand she aid jn.l becau.e be did n waul n fat wife guy was present in court but lie said that he should not contradict her statements cummins allison fight hangs in the balance scratched ballots and heavy vote delay count in lowa primaries routburlingtonmackine allison strong in river coun ties and home district cum mins relies on country des moixes la june 2 never befor in the history of lowa politics have result been so difficult to secure as in the prim ary election today at 12 o'clock mid night less than one-twentieth of the pre cincts have been hoard from and both re publican factious are claiming victory re suits from the stand-pat reservation shov a gain for cummins that would iudieat his choice as the republican nominee fo t'nited states senator against william b allison the present incumbent the slowness of count is due to tb cumbersomeness of the primary ballot thi contest has been waged hotly all over th state and these tickets are universalis scratched results in polk county giv cummins a decided victory here and uom inate for congress on the republican tickel judge s f prouty who was supported by cummins against j a t hull hull's defeat is plainly shown to be the resull of opposition by labor hot factional fight during the last few days of the primarj campaign questionable tactics were re sorted to by the republican factions 1 the heat of their campaign all over des moines inst night streamers were tacked to telephone poles purporting to expose o faked photograph of senator allison making to appear very old and decrepit returns to-night from sioux city and woodbury couuly give a flattering ma jority to senator allison this however is the home of editor george d perkins who was the unsuccessful 6tand-pat candi date for gubernatorial nomination against mr cunimins last time cummins wins in burlington burlington indications show will give a majorfty fo mr cummins this is the home of the bon j v bly attorney for the burlington railroad who is said to have been a dictator of republican politics in lown under the stand pat regime dubuque county the home of senator allison paid him a high compliment of a flattering majority most of the river counties reports indi cate will be for allison this is bald to be because of the opposition to cummins by the liquor interests in that territory garst leads for governor indications are thai warren garst of coon rapids will be the republican nomi nee for governor over b f carroll the standpat candidate mr garst is the po litical protege of governor cummius should mr garst he elected and gov ernor cummins defeated it is of admitted certainty that in case of mr allison's death garst would appoint cunimins to the senate most of the country districts are yet unheard from it is here that gov.eruor cummins claims to be especially strong democrats with but few exceptions had only one candidate for each office in the field but lit i if interest was manifested on their part in the primary election save by those who participated by voting re publican tickets and in this manner as sistea in breaking up the old machine democrats win in oregon portland ore june 2.-ou the face of incomplete returns george chamberlain democratic governor of oregon has been chosen by the people to succeed charles w fulton republican as t'nited state's senator chamberlain apparently has a majority of abont 1,500 over h m cake his republican opponent all the other offices ou the state ticket were carried by the republicans by im mense majorities robert s bean justice of the supreme court has between 25,000 and 30,000 majority food and dairv com missioner j w bailey about 10,000 and railroad commissioner clvde atchison nbout 3,000 the popular vole on t'nited states sen ator is in effect a recommendation to the legislature and is not binding railroad adopts phone wilkksbarre pa june 2.-officials of the delaware lackawanna & avestern railroad to-day received notice of an or der to establish a telephone system which will it is understood in time displace the telegraph bob evans son cows mob in a dance hall at point of revolver saves sailor from being robbed in san francisco and then drives crowd out of place san piiaxc'isco june 2 l.iueleuant frank e\*hus of the louisiana son of fighting bob evans while slumming on the barbary coast early this morning demonstrated that he was a true chip of the old block he saved a sailor from being robbed and drove a threatening crowd out of a dance hall with bis re volver evans iu civilian clothes snt at a table with n number of friends he noticed a dance girl extracting a 20 goldplece from the blouse of john waliick a sailor of the louisiana who was there with william kdmundsnn another sailor of the same ship evans at once apprised waliick of the robbery the sailor demanded his money back and got it # a number of male hangers-on crowded threateningly around the little coterie and realizing at once what would be their fate if the gang jiimped on them evans drew his revolver backed into the middle of the floor flanked by the two sailors and or dered everybody else to clear out of the place the women and their male consorts tum bled belter skelter to the street and ran for the police patrolmen manion and heine responded finding evans with a drawn revolver they at once arrested him evans said nothing until police headquar ters were reached and then informed the prison sergeant who he was and was re-j leased jeff davis name jeered in arkansas convention senator badly beaten for place on delegation-at-large little rock ark june 2 the dem 1 ocratic convention with howls and yells 1 to-day forced back to his seat the man i who nominated senator jeff davis as dele gates t-large from arkansas to the na tional convention in denver in an effort to draw strength to his favorite judge j evans who made the nominating speech chose to name both senator james p clarke and senator jeff davis for the honor the convention received with cheers the name of the senior senator but when the speaker proposed davis bedlam broke loose and judge evans was compelled to sit down se.iator davis was on the floor at the time out of a possible 599 votes ne received but 196 while his colleague re â€¢; lÂ»8 tl e.jitire pindah-donaghey anil havls shite of delegates was chosen w j bryan was indorsed and the dele gates instructed to vote for him from start to finish no wedding to-day for burglars gottrousseau miss mccarty declares she'll not marry without new outfit burglars spoiled a wedding thai was to have been celebrated to-day miss mar garet mccarty 8 trousseau was stolen yes terday afternoon by thieves who broke into the home or her sister-in-law mrs michael deneen mis ogden avenue with whom she has been staying and carried away every article of wearing apparel thai she possessed except the clothing she wore miss mccarty has postponed ber wedding indefinitely in spile of the e monslrance of her fiance 1 will not go to my husband without a brand new trousseau insisted the dis appointed young woman so there she came to Chicago a few days ago from southern Illinois to marry a Chicago man whose name she would uot disclose yesterday afternoon she went shopping with mrs deneen and when she returned her trousseau was gone queen alexandra visits dying servant girl calls at hospital with flowers and fruit in response to letter london june 2 queen alexandra this evening visited in st luke's hospital martha massey a young servant girl who wrote to the queen saying that she would like to see her majesty before she went abroad as she was dying of con sumption the queen was touched by the letter and carried nn armful of rare flowers and fruits to her sire took a sent at the side of the cot and chatted with her cheerily for fifteen minutes the girl wept with joy at the queen's unexpected visit dur ing the conversation the girl was seized with a violent fit of coughing the queen seut an attendant to her carriage for a box of troches and taking one from the box placed it between the girl's lips waldorf astor jr urges semi-teetotal pledge millionaire makes humorous speech at london meeting london tune 2 waldorf astor jr made his debut as a public speaker this aft ernoon presiding at a meeting of the semi teetolal tledge association the society's pledge is i solemnly undertake by god's help lo abstain from all intoxicating drink except at midday and evening meals astor made a humorous speech in favor of the association's object describing it as a practical common-sense movement " the millionaire caused his audience to smile when he alluded to a casual drink ns a ! cocktail the audience laughed when astor . suggested perhaps men teel the need of j stimulants to help their conversation more â– i,i.iii women do the bishop of london i supported astor's plea for a general sijrnlnir iui the semi-teetotal pledge * | adds 110,000 duty to mrs w.b leeds pearl necklace n united states judge decides â– case of new york woman's r famous jewels i : total now is 132,000 \ gems assessed only 22,000 i when imported on claim they were unstrung i new york june 2,-judge lacomb of i the united states circuit court to-day . handed down an opinion in the case of the . government against bernard citroen a , jeweler of paris france reversing the finding of the board of general appraisers . and adding 110,000 duty the suit was brought by the government to recover the difference in customs duties ! on a pearl ueck lace the french jeweler brought to new york to deliver to mrs william b leeds of this city and newport who had purchased it from him in paris the action is in the nature of an appeal from the board of general appraisers when the ease was heard in february | mrs leeds testified that she had paid i*.'!40.000 for the pearls when she bought them from citroen with the understanding that they would be delivered to her in new york she traded another necklace for which she received a credit of 25,000 she paid the balance 313,000 in cash claims pearls are unstrung citroen delivered the jewels to mis leeds this mrs leeds contended was all she bad to do with the case from records in the case it appears that citroen mi strung the pearls and brought them to new yolk declaring that they were un strung pearls valued at 220,000 the customs house officials claimed that the pearls were in reality a necklace un mounted only for the purpose of importa tion and demanded additional duty to the extent of 110,000 or the full 60 per cent imposed upon mounted jewels the board of appraisers decided in favor of citroen and assessed duty of 22,000 or 10 per cent of the declared value it was from this decision that the government ap pealed the duty thus is increased to 132,000 which added to the 340,000 paid by mrs leeds brings he vahie to 472,000 necklace now worth 500,000 originally there were thirty seven pearls in the string and they weigh 885 grains or an average of 26.62 grains each the center pearl weighs fifty-three groins the first pair eighty-three and one-eigh.'b and the remaining pairs are graduated each being two or three grains smaller than the preceding six pearls have been added j 1 lo the string in new york bringing net value to more thau 500,000 open 22 more boxes hearst gains 20 votes recount reduces mcclellan's alleged plurality to 3.365 new york june 2.-out of twenty-two ballot boxes opened to-day iu the quo warranto proceedings to test the legality of mcclellan's certificate of election as mayor of new york city william r hearst made substantial gaius in fourteen mcclellan showed slight gains in five and in three of the boxes the result was not changed by the recount as a result of the recount before justice lambert to-day mr hearst's vote was increased bv 20 votes giviiig him a total increase of 100 votes since the first box was opened and reducing mcclellan's alleged plurality to 3,3u this gain of 100 for mr hearst was obtained in forty-eight boxes opened a majority of which came from ihe down town election districts in manhattan bear attacks a man in heart of Chicago byron campbell feeds peanuts and incidentally digits to beast ( . byron campbell 5428 dearborn street was bitten by a bear iu the heart of the downtowu district lu Chicago yesterday the bear was not at large it was confined iu a cage in the bird and animal store of a c vahle * bro 40 state street ii was one of a consignment of seven denizens of the forest which are being shipped east from des moines in campbell went into the store to buy his wife a birthday present he was at tracted by the bears he went out and bought some peanuts returning he begun to feed them to the bears one of the animals grabbed campbell's fingers at the same time that be did a peanut Chicago woman victim in michigan train wreck mrs h c lobey caught under seat and is sawed out grand rapids mich june 2 in a wreck caused by the derailment of a pete marquette passenger train at muliiken fifty miies east of here this afternoon mrs h c l.obey 159 la salle street chi cago was seriously injured sne will re cover running at fifty miles an hour the train ran into an open switch overturning the engine baggage car and day coach mrs lobey was pinioned under a seat and bad to be sawed out h c whiting kiremuu stedmaii and engineer i'red ives all of detroit were injured and ives will die all the injured were brought here owns 500,000 necklace john hays hammond may run with Taft â– famous jameson raider an nounces he is in race for vice presidency washington june 2 john hays hammond admitted to-night that be was ' a candidate for the vice presidency he said i have known secretary Taft for thirty years was a classmate of his at college and nothing would be more agreeable to me thau to run with him on the national ticket 1 would tun as a business man 1 and as representing tire business interests lof the country my friends have been 1 kÂ»u;j enough to urge me to be a candidate fur the place and i do not see why a busi ness man would not be as well equipped a candidate as any other secretary Taft mrs Taft and mr ham mond the world famous miner engineering expert and jameson raider were at the war department to-day when the report that mr hammond was slated for the vice presidential nomination on the Taft ticket : was renewed among the prophets | headquarters in Chicago the secretary of war was appealed to to tell what took place at to-day's conference but he said it would be manifestly unfair so say what had happened john b montgomery of colorado wjll leave here for Chicago to-morrow to estab lish headquarters in the auditorium aunei in the interest of the candidacy of mr hammond the theory as to the availability of mr hammond takes into consideration his riches and his popularity in the mining sections of the west must defeat strong rivals it is now up to john hays hammond of massachusetts to defeat governor guild of massachusetts tim woodruff james sherman charles w fairbanks secretary cortelyou senator dolliver luke wright of tennessee and a few others who are mentioned for second place on the ticket mr hamiuoud is regarded as the monte cristo of american politics and it is said he could go to wall street and raise three or four millions in twenty-four hours Chicago not salt lake mormon headquarters clergyman startles presbyterian gen eral assembly with statement pittsburg pa june 2 Chicago and not salt lake city is now the head quarters of mormonlsm iu america in all but name the working organization the missionary branch of the church jms been transferred from utah where it was too oclsely watched to the city on lake michi gan their literary bureau is iu Chicago where they distribute mormon tracts to every part of the world in half a dozen languages this was the statement made this after noon before the united presbyterian gen eral assembly by the rev j g nutting of cleveland 0 who is in charge of the united presbyterian gospel mission at salt lake city Chicago will in ten years time have a greater mormon settlement than salt lake declared rev nutting mauretania passengers in a free-for-all fight new york june 2 a free-for-all fight in the smoking room of the maure tanla sunday night iu midoeean landed three alleged gamblers behind the bars here to-day threw the passengers into an uproar destroyed much of the italian walnut finishings of the vessel and re suited in serious injuries to three tourists who declared they had been fleeced lu response to urgent wireless messages the mattretania was met by a revenue cutter alexander dwyer w h day and h 1 br.ilnumir were placed under arrest but were discharged in court to-day as no one appeared to precs the charges against them a b randolph lost k37 in a single sitting at cards eric thornton i an knglishm.il . lost 3oo shaking dice other passengers alleged they had leal various amounts a tight which started j in the smoking room qub-kly involved half *. dczen other passenger and assumed the groportions of i riot before it was stopped ' y the ship's officer Taft foes to use grant attack to beat him cannon fairbanks hughes and knox men to carry fight to convention launch boom in Chicago committee will hear corrup tion charges against Taft delegates in secret <( fairbanks men accuse bribery gag rule and all crooked practices cited in kentucky briefs wholesale charges of corruption against Taft delegates to the conven tion will he heard by the contests com mittee behind closed doors the hear ing of the complaints which are brought by the fairbanks managers will begin friday all anti-taft men unite with secre tary's criticism of tr'sneral grant as am munition to carry fight to the convention clop booms art launched in Chicago with the opening at Taft and cannon head quarters contests .. scheduled in 229 strug gles for seats and ons of charges spare no denunria'>on word cc.i'os from nev york that sen ator henrj cabot liodge of massachu setts has ber,n picked a president roosevelt for peraianeryt^^kfrma>>*iu->^j the republican national republican presidential aspirants opposed to secretary of war william h Taft hav seized upon his meniora day speech on general great :~ unite their forces it was made clear yesterday that the re marks derogatory to grant's personal char acter will be one of the things relied upon to turn sentiment against Taft at the con vention here week after next one candidate and representatives of two others met at pittsburg yesterday to dis cuss the best way of turning the speech against its author and also the most available means of defeating mr Taft they were uncle joe cannon candidate senator james a hemenway and congress man charles b landis representing vice president fairbanks and congressman james francis burke who spoke for sen ator p 11 knox favorite sou of penn sylvania there is no question but that mr taft's blunder was a serious one and one of which rhe jeopie are bound to take cognizance mr burke said when the conference was over anti-taft feeling grows here ihe opposition to secretary Taft devel oped rapidly here in the course of tha day the other candidates gave everv indication of haviug a clearly understood working agreement and they were openly / called the allies a common press agent / appeared for all of them and at the abaft j hotel last night the various represents i lives joseph b sealing for mr fairbanks john f.versman for speaker cannon and a b humphrey for governor hughes ft peated with greater emphasis theit prevl ons statements that mr tafl canno nominated on the first ballot â– . â€¢ upon any ballot they claimed n they also stood sponsor for the statement / that senator i.a follette is coming to the 1 convention personally to attack mr Taft and there was but a half hearted denial of the charge that mr fairbanks agreed to run for vice presitlent again provided governor hughes is named for president the local Taft campaign was opeued at the annex yesterday it was a mild and modest opening to be sure but still an opening c s watts secretary of the secretary of war and h m miller as sistant attorney general of ohio arrived to do a bit of modest press work iu ad vance of the coming of the field marshals of the Taft forces hitchcock comes to-day the first of the field marshals to come will be frank h hitchcock he is sched uled to arrive this morning he is to bring the facts and figures the estimates and the claims of the Taft boom and he is also expected to start the band wtigrin on its journey â– then to-morrow will bring the real Taft 'â– enthusiast charles p Taft loaded down 1 with checkbooks things are to start hum ming within ten minutes of the time he ar rives and gets to work with his trait fountain pen brother charley is the real head enthusiasm provider of the Taft entourage he not only furnishes the baud wagon but the band and when the national committeemen begin arriving in bunches friday for the contest sessions i they will find the wagon waiting and tha j baud tuned up bur the tafters did not have any ninuop olj i f the annex uncle joe cannon's 1 boom was set off just across the street at the auditorium and made a noise that â„¢ i'l almost be heard in the headquarters of the secretary of war john f.versman secretary of congress nun w b mckinley brought the cannon movement or near-movement to town in he morning his first duty was to hand â€” , â€” i â– continued on 6th page ist column wrjjl Chicago and vicinity partiy m'i f *Â§ cloudy with probably showers fe -^ vmj wednesday and thursday warmer y j a j thursday easterly winds shifting jjg m to southerly ss psee outing-s every day this summer can be had by read ers of 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Chicago examiner wednesday june 3 1908 14 pages vol vi no 141 a m price one cent gggg&ggfc | rivals for senatorship era of drugs at an end physicians declare old-fashioned potion vendei succeeded by man of hygiene doctors say mind prescription nov famous medical men at a m a convention tell of new regime see poverty for m ds speakers predict such health ful conditions they will not be needed the regime of the doctor oi drugs has passed last night a small coterie of the most famous physicians and surgeons m the world chanced tc meet in the lobby of the annex hotel they declared that the fifty-ninth con vention of the american medical as sociation now in session in Chicago marks the extinction of the old fashioned vender of potions they said that the convention es tablishes beyond doubt that his place has been taken by the doctor of hy giene and thought prescription who tells his patients that instead of ach ing from rheuma'tism they should take a long walk that instead of suffering from typhoid and malaria they should drain the puddles that have accumulated in the back yards after spring rains the principal speakers at this gathering were dr henry o marcy of boston famous pupil of the famous lord lister of london and the flrst practitioner of modern surgery in this country dr john wyeth head of the new york academy of medicine dr c a l reed of cincinnati former president of the american medical association and dr t d crotherf of hartford conn one of the oldest neurologists in the united states spectators in the group who nodded as sent to the comments of the others were dr cliarles b beevor of the national hos pital for the paralyzed and epileptics of london and probably the greatest special ist lu the world on nervous diseases and colonel w c gorgas t'nited states army sanitarian in charge of the panama canal zone many drugs to be abandoned here are sonic of the expressions of these experts on the work and value of the convention to the people of Chicago and the united states as well ns the medical world dr marcy said the convention is the clearing house for the abandonment of old ideas and the acceptance of new views fifteen thou sand doctors ihe largest number ever as sembled now are wrangling in stormy ses sions throughout the city on every known point iu medicines and surgery some times it looks like they were on the verge of a fight but they ate really settling the question of the abandonment forever of many of the drugs formerly in use the value to the practitioners them selves is the meeting of the men from the country with the city physicians i con sider the country doctor in some ways is better than any of us he is independent the city man specializes and consequently depends constantly upon his professional brethren the country doctor also has been a leader in the new idea of living out of doors and the use of hospital tents and the advocate of the surgeon's knife only in extreme cases want physician in cabinet other great questions that are being answered at this meeting and which will take the form of action in permanent com mittees appointed by the house of dele gates said dr crothers is the creation of a cabinet office for a physician who thart oversee the health of the nation it klso means competent medical legislation in all states , alcohol is also a subject souuded in pearly every meeting doctors have begun to realize its demorali-ing effects â– the other doctors declared themselves on ahe subject of speciailsts i the specialist may charge 10 just to lake a look at a patient said dr reed kand sometimes the prices are too high int just the same the specialist in the lies is the demand of american life hnericans live too fast eat too fast and kc much work too hard and make too inuch money all this tears down their vstems and the medical world has to specialize to keep 11,1 with them dr wyeth then closed the discussion by rob union officials as meeting closes two men enter hall and ob tain si 80 from treasury of carpenters body two masked men last night held up wil liam kearns i;,20 humboldt boulevard william nayior 48g crystal street and li gregoire 3.'!7 so^tl center avenue officers of the carpenters and joiners union while they were counting up their monthly re ceipts after a meeting in the john hopkln sou hal kedzle and colorado avenues they escaped with 180 after ihe union meeting the hall was used by the modern brotherhood of america mi organization of men and women this meeting had jnst adjourned and the three union officials were still checking up their receipts when the door was opened sudden ly and the two men entered with revolvers in their hands their order put up yonr hands was so sudden that kearns began to reach for the money while one covered the other officers the second shoved his revolver into kearns face repeating his command the robbers then took the money and backed from the room leaving the officials standing with their faces to the wall more than isoo men and women were downstairs many of them lu a large palm garden which occupies the first floor hear ing a noise upstairs some of the men started up and were passed by ihe rob bers coming down they conducted them selves so as to arouse no suspicion and escaped through the palm garden the warren avenue police were notified but say that the description given of the men is extremely vague mrs preston gibson to wear directoire gown will appear in paris creation at wedding in washington washington june 2 when mrs preston gibson daughter of mrs tnomas nelson page acts as matron of honor at the wedding of miss errol cuthbert and lieutenant charles train of the navy on june 15 she will wear the geuuiue direc loire gown otherwise known as the sheath 6kirt this will be the first appearance of the gown in washington it was im ported from paris where mrs gibson who lias ju.st returned from abroad pur chased it it is said that the gown fol lows faithfully the lines of the direetoire gown even to the slash on one side forced to jump rope wife sues for divorce nkyv haven conn june 2.-when mrs charles guy of meriden was asked in the suiter _ court to-ilay to tell why she sough n divorce ou the ground of intoler able cruelty she told the judge that her husband compel her tn jump a rope to keep down her weight he kept her skip plug till she could hardly stand she aid jn.l becau.e be did n waul n fat wife guy was present in court but lie said that he should not contradict her statements cummins allison fight hangs in the balance scratched ballots and heavy vote delay count in lowa primaries routburlingtonmackine allison strong in river coun ties and home district cum mins relies on country des moixes la june 2 never befor in the history of lowa politics have result been so difficult to secure as in the prim ary election today at 12 o'clock mid night less than one-twentieth of the pre cincts have been hoard from and both re publican factious are claiming victory re suits from the stand-pat reservation shov a gain for cummins that would iudieat his choice as the republican nominee fo t'nited states senator against william b allison the present incumbent the slowness of count is due to tb cumbersomeness of the primary ballot thi contest has been waged hotly all over th state and these tickets are universalis scratched results in polk county giv cummins a decided victory here and uom inate for congress on the republican tickel judge s f prouty who was supported by cummins against j a t hull hull's defeat is plainly shown to be the resull of opposition by labor hot factional fight during the last few days of the primarj campaign questionable tactics were re sorted to by the republican factions 1 the heat of their campaign all over des moines inst night streamers were tacked to telephone poles purporting to expose o faked photograph of senator allison making to appear very old and decrepit returns to-night from sioux city and woodbury couuly give a flattering ma jority to senator allison this however is the home of editor george d perkins who was the unsuccessful 6tand-pat candi date for gubernatorial nomination against mr cunimins last time cummins wins in burlington burlington indications show will give a majorfty fo mr cummins this is the home of the bon j v bly attorney for the burlington railroad who is said to have been a dictator of republican politics in lown under the stand pat regime dubuque county the home of senator allison paid him a high compliment of a flattering majority most of the river counties reports indi cate will be for allison this is bald to be because of the opposition to cummins by the liquor interests in that territory garst leads for governor indications are thai warren garst of coon rapids will be the republican nomi nee for governor over b f carroll the standpat candidate mr garst is the po litical protege of governor cummius should mr garst he elected and gov ernor cummins defeated it is of admitted certainty that in case of mr allison's death garst would appoint cunimins to the senate most of the country districts are yet unheard from it is here that gov.eruor cummins claims to be especially strong democrats with but few exceptions had only one candidate for each office in the field but lit i if interest was manifested on their part in the primary election save by those who participated by voting re publican tickets and in this manner as sistea in breaking up the old machine democrats win in oregon portland ore june 2.-ou the face of incomplete returns george chamberlain democratic governor of oregon has been chosen by the people to succeed charles w fulton republican as t'nited state's senator chamberlain apparently has a majority of abont 1,500 over h m cake his republican opponent all the other offices ou the state ticket were carried by the republicans by im mense majorities robert s bean justice of the supreme court has between 25,000 and 30,000 majority food and dairv com missioner j w bailey about 10,000 and railroad commissioner clvde atchison nbout 3,000 the popular vole on t'nited states sen ator is in effect a recommendation to the legislature and is not binding railroad adopts phone wilkksbarre pa june 2.-officials of the delaware lackawanna & avestern railroad to-day received notice of an or der to establish a telephone system which will it is understood in time displace the telegraph bob evans son cows mob in a dance hall at point of revolver saves sailor from being robbed in san francisco and then drives crowd out of place san piiaxc'isco june 2 l.iueleuant frank e\*hus of the louisiana son of fighting bob evans while slumming on the barbary coast early this morning demonstrated that he was a true chip of the old block he saved a sailor from being robbed and drove a threatening crowd out of a dance hall with bis re volver evans iu civilian clothes snt at a table with n number of friends he noticed a dance girl extracting a 20 goldplece from the blouse of john waliick a sailor of the louisiana who was there with william kdmundsnn another sailor of the same ship evans at once apprised waliick of the robbery the sailor demanded his money back and got it # a number of male hangers-on crowded threateningly around the little coterie and realizing at once what would be their fate if the gang jiimped on them evans drew his revolver backed into the middle of the floor flanked by the two sailors and or dered everybody else to clear out of the place the women and their male consorts tum bled belter skelter to the street and ran for the police patrolmen manion and heine responded finding evans with a drawn revolver they at once arrested him evans said nothing until police headquar ters were reached and then informed the prison sergeant who he was and was re-j leased jeff davis name jeered in arkansas convention senator badly beaten for place on delegation-at-large little rock ark june 2 the dem 1 ocratic convention with howls and yells 1 to-day forced back to his seat the man i who nominated senator jeff davis as dele gates t-large from arkansas to the na tional convention in denver in an effort to draw strength to his favorite judge j evans who made the nominating speech chose to name both senator james p clarke and senator jeff davis for the honor the convention received with cheers the name of the senior senator but when the speaker proposed davis bedlam broke loose and judge evans was compelled to sit down se.iator davis was on the floor at the time out of a possible 599 votes ne received but 196 while his colleague re â€¢; lÂ»8 tl e.jitire pindah-donaghey anil havls shite of delegates was chosen w j bryan was indorsed and the dele gates instructed to vote for him from start to finish no wedding to-day for burglars gottrousseau miss mccarty declares she'll not marry without new outfit burglars spoiled a wedding thai was to have been celebrated to-day miss mar garet mccarty 8 trousseau was stolen yes terday afternoon by thieves who broke into the home or her sister-in-law mrs michael deneen mis ogden avenue with whom she has been staying and carried away every article of wearing apparel thai she possessed except the clothing she wore miss mccarty has postponed ber wedding indefinitely in spile of the e monslrance of her fiance 1 will not go to my husband without a brand new trousseau insisted the dis appointed young woman so there she came to Chicago a few days ago from southern Illinois to marry a Chicago man whose name she would uot disclose yesterday afternoon she went shopping with mrs deneen and when she returned her trousseau was gone queen alexandra visits dying servant girl calls at hospital with flowers and fruit in response to letter london june 2 queen alexandra this evening visited in st luke's hospital martha massey a young servant girl who wrote to the queen saying that she would like to see her majesty before she went abroad as she was dying of con sumption the queen was touched by the letter and carried nn armful of rare flowers and fruits to her sire took a sent at the side of the cot and chatted with her cheerily for fifteen minutes the girl wept with joy at the queen's unexpected visit dur ing the conversation the girl was seized with a violent fit of coughing the queen seut an attendant to her carriage for a box of troches and taking one from the box placed it between the girl's lips waldorf astor jr urges semi-teetotal pledge millionaire makes humorous speech at london meeting london tune 2 waldorf astor jr made his debut as a public speaker this aft ernoon presiding at a meeting of the semi teetolal tledge association the society's pledge is i solemnly undertake by god's help lo abstain from all intoxicating drink except at midday and evening meals astor made a humorous speech in favor of the association's object describing it as a practical common-sense movement " the millionaire caused his audience to smile when he alluded to a casual drink ns a ! cocktail the audience laughed when astor . suggested perhaps men teel the need of j stimulants to help their conversation more â– i,i.iii women do the bishop of london i supported astor's plea for a general sijrnlnir iui the semi-teetotal pledge * | adds 110,000 duty to mrs w.b leeds pearl necklace n united states judge decides â– case of new york woman's r famous jewels i : total now is 132,000 \ gems assessed only 22,000 i when imported on claim they were unstrung i new york june 2,-judge lacomb of i the united states circuit court to-day . handed down an opinion in the case of the . government against bernard citroen a , jeweler of paris france reversing the finding of the board of general appraisers . and adding 110,000 duty the suit was brought by the government to recover the difference in customs duties ! on a pearl ueck lace the french jeweler brought to new york to deliver to mrs william b leeds of this city and newport who had purchased it from him in paris the action is in the nature of an appeal from the board of general appraisers when the ease was heard in february | mrs leeds testified that she had paid i*.'!40.000 for the pearls when she bought them from citroen with the understanding that they would be delivered to her in new york she traded another necklace for which she received a credit of 25,000 she paid the balance 313,000 in cash claims pearls are unstrung citroen delivered the jewels to mis leeds this mrs leeds contended was all she bad to do with the case from records in the case it appears that citroen mi strung the pearls and brought them to new yolk declaring that they were un strung pearls valued at 220,000 the customs house officials claimed that the pearls were in reality a necklace un mounted only for the purpose of importa tion and demanded additional duty to the extent of 110,000 or the full 60 per cent imposed upon mounted jewels the board of appraisers decided in favor of citroen and assessed duty of 22,000 or 10 per cent of the declared value it was from this decision that the government ap pealed the duty thus is increased to 132,000 which added to the 340,000 paid by mrs leeds brings he vahie to 472,000 necklace now worth 500,000 originally there were thirty seven pearls in the string and they weigh 885 grains or an average of 26.62 grains each the center pearl weighs fifty-three groins the first pair eighty-three and one-eigh.'b and the remaining pairs are graduated each being two or three grains smaller than the preceding six pearls have been added j 1 lo the string in new york bringing net value to more thau 500,000 open 22 more boxes hearst gains 20 votes recount reduces mcclellan's alleged plurality to 3.365 new york june 2.-out of twenty-two ballot boxes opened to-day iu the quo warranto proceedings to test the legality of mcclellan's certificate of election as mayor of new york city william r hearst made substantial gaius in fourteen mcclellan showed slight gains in five and in three of the boxes the result was not changed by the recount as a result of the recount before justice lambert to-day mr hearst's vote was increased bv 20 votes giviiig him a total increase of 100 votes since the first box was opened and reducing mcclellan's alleged plurality to 3,3u this gain of 100 for mr hearst was obtained in forty-eight boxes opened a majority of which came from ihe down town election districts in manhattan bear attacks a man in heart of Chicago byron campbell feeds peanuts and incidentally digits to beast ( . byron campbell 5428 dearborn street was bitten by a bear iu the heart of the downtowu district lu Chicago yesterday the bear was not at large it was confined iu a cage in the bird and animal store of a c vahle * bro 40 state street ii was one of a consignment of seven denizens of the forest which are being shipped east from des moines in campbell went into the store to buy his wife a birthday present he was at tracted by the bears he went out and bought some peanuts returning he begun to feed them to the bears one of the animals grabbed campbell's fingers at the same time that be did a peanut Chicago woman victim in michigan train wreck mrs h c lobey caught under seat and is sawed out grand rapids mich june 2 in a wreck caused by the derailment of a pete marquette passenger train at muliiken fifty miies east of here this afternoon mrs h c l.obey 159 la salle street chi cago was seriously injured sne will re cover running at fifty miles an hour the train ran into an open switch overturning the engine baggage car and day coach mrs lobey was pinioned under a seat and bad to be sawed out h c whiting kiremuu stedmaii and engineer i'red ives all of detroit were injured and ives will die all the injured were brought here owns 500,000 necklace john hays hammond may run with Taft â– famous jameson raider an nounces he is in race for vice presidency washington june 2 john hays hammond admitted to-night that be was ' a candidate for the vice presidency he said i have known secretary Taft for thirty years was a classmate of his at college and nothing would be more agreeable to me thau to run with him on the national ticket 1 would tun as a business man 1 and as representing tire business interests lof the country my friends have been 1 kÂ»u;j enough to urge me to be a candidate fur the place and i do not see why a busi ness man would not be as well equipped a candidate as any other secretary Taft mrs Taft and mr ham mond the world famous miner engineering expert and jameson raider were at the war department to-day when the report that mr hammond was slated for the vice presidential nomination on the Taft ticket : was renewed among the prophets | headquarters in Chicago the secretary of war was appealed to to tell what took place at to-day's conference but he said it would be manifestly unfair so say what had happened john b montgomery of colorado wjll leave here for Chicago to-morrow to estab lish headquarters in the auditorium aunei in the interest of the candidacy of mr hammond the theory as to the availability of mr hammond takes into consideration his riches and his popularity in the mining sections of the west must defeat strong rivals it is now up to john hays hammond of massachusetts to defeat governor guild of massachusetts tim woodruff james sherman charles w fairbanks secretary cortelyou senator dolliver luke wright of tennessee and a few others who are mentioned for second place on the ticket mr hamiuoud is regarded as the monte cristo of american politics and it is said he could go to wall street and raise three or four millions in twenty-four hours Chicago not salt lake mormon headquarters clergyman startles presbyterian gen eral assembly with statement pittsburg pa june 2 Chicago and not salt lake city is now the head quarters of mormonlsm iu america in all but name the working organization the missionary branch of the church jms been transferred from utah where it was too oclsely watched to the city on lake michi gan their literary bureau is iu Chicago where they distribute mormon tracts to every part of the world in half a dozen languages this was the statement made this after noon before the united presbyterian gen eral assembly by the rev j g nutting of cleveland 0 who is in charge of the united presbyterian gospel mission at salt lake city Chicago will in ten years time have a greater mormon settlement than salt lake declared rev nutting mauretania passengers in a free-for-all fight new york june 2 a free-for-all fight in the smoking room of the maure tanla sunday night iu midoeean landed three alleged gamblers behind the bars here to-day threw the passengers into an uproar destroyed much of the italian walnut finishings of the vessel and re suited in serious injuries to three tourists who declared they had been fleeced lu response to urgent wireless messages the mattretania was met by a revenue cutter alexander dwyer w h day and h 1 br.ilnumir were placed under arrest but were discharged in court to-day as no one appeared to precs the charges against them a b randolph lost k37 in a single sitting at cards eric thornton i an knglishm.il . lost 3oo shaking dice other passengers alleged they had leal various amounts a tight which started j in the smoking room qub-kly involved half *. dczen other passenger and assumed the groportions of i riot before it was stopped ' y the ship's officer Taft foes to use grant attack to beat him cannon fairbanks hughes and knox men to carry fight to convention launch boom in Chicago committee will hear corrup tion charges against Taft delegates in secret on word cc.i'os from nev york that sen ator henrj cabot liodge of massachu setts has ber,n picked a president roosevelt for peraianeryt^^kfrma>>*iu->^j the republican national republican presidential aspirants opposed to secretary of war william h Taft hav seized upon his meniora day speech on general great :~ unite their forces it was made clear yesterday that the re marks derogatory to grant's personal char acter will be one of the things relied upon to turn sentiment against Taft at the con vention here week after next one candidate and representatives of two others met at pittsburg yesterday to dis cuss the best way of turning the speech against its author and also the most available means of defeating mr Taft they were uncle joe cannon candidate senator james a hemenway and congress man charles b landis representing vice president fairbanks and congressman james francis burke who spoke for sen ator p 11 knox favorite sou of penn sylvania there is no question but that mr taft's blunder was a serious one and one of which rhe jeopie are bound to take cognizance mr burke said when the conference was over anti-taft feeling grows here ihe opposition to secretary Taft devel oped rapidly here in the course of tha day the other candidates gave everv indication of haviug a clearly understood working agreement and they were openly / called the allies a common press agent / appeared for all of them and at the abaft j hotel last night the various represents i lives joseph b sealing for mr fairbanks john f.versman for speaker cannon and a b humphrey for governor hughes ft peated with greater emphasis theit prevl ons statements that mr tafl canno nominated on the first ballot â– . â€¢ upon any ballot they claimed n they also stood sponsor for the statement / that senator i.a follette is coming to the 1 convention personally to attack mr Taft and there was but a half hearted denial of the charge that mr fairbanks agreed to run for vice presitlent again provided governor hughes is named for president the local Taft campaign was opeued at the annex yesterday it was a mild and modest opening to be sure but still an opening c s watts secretary of the secretary of war and h m miller as sistant attorney general of ohio arrived to do a bit of modest press work iu ad vance of the coming of the field marshals of the Taft forces hitchcock comes to-day the first of the field marshals to come will be frank h hitchcock he is sched uled to arrive this morning he is to bring the facts and figures the estimates and the claims of the Taft boom and he is also expected to start the band wtigrin on its journey â– then to-morrow will bring the real Taft 'â– enthusiast charles p Taft loaded down 1 with checkbooks things are to start hum ming within ten minutes of the time he ar rives and gets to work with his trait fountain pen brother charley is the real head enthusiasm provider of the Taft entourage he not only furnishes the baud wagon but the band and when the national committeemen begin arriving in bunches friday for the contest sessions i they will find the wagon waiting and tha j baud tuned up bur the tafters did not have any ninuop olj i f the annex uncle joe cannon's 1 boom was set off just across the street at the auditorium and made a noise that â„¢ i'l almost be heard in the headquarters of the secretary of war john f.versman secretary of congress nun w b 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